Our Year in Natural Disaster Posts

As you may know, the Recovery Zone is not only a great resource for articles on MSP advice and the tech industry in general, but also a good source of information on everything disaster, small or large. 2014 was an interesting year for disasters, and people were affected by disasters as diverse as earthquakes and volcanoes. The big takeaway from these disasters is that one should always be prepared, but there’s a lot more we can learn from disaster. With that in mind, here are the best disaster-related articles we published in 2014. And may 2015 be a year in which we’re all well-prepared.

During a disaster, power might be the first thing to go, which means online resources won’t be available for long. This article tells you which books you’ll want to have physical copies of in case a disaster comes your way.

Volcanoes were in the news quite a bit in 2014, which is part of the reason why our "Natural Disasters in Focus" series took a close, detailed look at volcanoes. This post goes over the why, what and how of volcanoes—it also has some really great photos.

Humans did dumb things to cause the disasters in the previous post, but nature did some scary things to cause the disasters in this post. Here are some utterly bizarre natural disasters that you likely haven’t heard about.

Casey Morgan is the marketing content specialist at StorageCraft. Guest blogs such as this are published monthly and are part of Talkin' Cloud's annual platinum sponsorship.